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Events Calendar

Conferences/public lectures

The Centre normally holds 3 one-two day conferences in the academic year, and may host others,  as well as offering public lectures.  The Stephen Copley lecture is held annually, and CECS staff have given papers for the York Festival of Ideas.

Research Seminars

Where the CECS community of staff and students gather to hear and debate the latest research about the eighteenth century. Centre research seminars are held regularly in term time on Tuesdays at 4.30pm in KG/07 at the King's Manor.

Postgraduate Forum

The CECS Postgraduate Forum is a student-lead interdisciplinary research group that meets to listen to and discuss papers from fellow York postgrads, students from other universities, and visiting professors, in a relaxed and friendly environment.

 

Forthcoming Events

Sat
18
May

York and the Georgian City: Past, Present, and Future

York Georgian Society and the Centre for Eighteenth-Century Studies present this conference aiming to re-evaluate the notion of York as a Georgian city, which was one of the founding premises of the York Georgian Society in 1939.

Previous events

The Miseducation of Charlotte Lennox

Tuesday 6 February 2024

More information to come

Ashes to Ashes: Death, Grief and Mourning in the Long Eighteenth Century

Saturday 3 February 2024

This one-day interdisciplinary conference revisits and re-evaluates some of the well-established narratives surrounding death, grief and mourning.

Those Who Stood Behind the "Great Mughals": Challenging the Narratives about the Women in the Mughal Empire

Tuesday 30 January 2024

Chandini Jaswal, a second-year postgraduate student of History at Panjab University, India, will present this seminar

Edgeworth and the Archive of Slavery

Tuesday 12 December 2023

Speaker: Jo Wharton (York)